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Statistical properties of the variation at linked microsatellite loci: implications for the history of human Y chromosomes.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 1996
Goldstein D B, Zhivotovsky L A, Nayar K, Linares A R, Cavalli-Sforza L L, Feldman M W
Abstract excerpt
It has recently been suggested that observed levels of variation at microsatellite loci can be used to infer patterns of selection in genomes and to assess demographic history. In order to evaluate the feasibility of these suggestions it is necessary to know something about how levels of variation at microsatellite loci are expected to fluctuate due simply to stochasticity in the processes of mutation and...
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